TRACIE ANDREWS, accused of the roadside murder of her fiancé, Lee Harvey, told police that they were deeply in love despite arguments.
Birmingham Crown Court has heard that the couple had a tempestuous relationship and the prosecution claims that Mr Harvey's murder was the final episode in their affair. He was stabbed to death near their home in Alvechurch, Hereford and Worcester, after they had spent an evening at a pub.
Miss Andrews, 28, told police: ”We have had our arguments and split up a few times, when Lee would go back to his parents' house, but we always got back together and love each other very much.
”Lee is a very friendly, outgoing person. He's outspoken and speaks his mind no matter who is there. He's an extremely kind, loving person.”
She admitted that they had a tiff on the day of the murder, but said it was “nothing major”. They had been their “normal selves” at the pub, she said, talking about their children from previous relationships. She told detectives that Mr Harvey had made a snide comment about the father of her six-year-old daughter, but they had not argued. “I suppose Lee's just jealous over the fact that I was with the other man.”
In the police interviews she was unable to explain numerous discrepancies in her description of the murder, which she said was carried out by a passenger in a Sierra which had chased their car.
Officers told her they had found a substantial clump of blonde hair, like hers, close to Mr Harvey's body. “I don't know who pulled my hair. My hair comes out easily anyway,” she said.
Miss Andrews denies murder. The trial continues.